A woman who has faced repeated allegations that she robbed men after drugging them was arrested Thursday in New Orleans in connection with the death one day earlier of a reporter for Telemundo Kansas City who was in town to cover the Super Bowl, the authorities said.

The woman, Danette Colbert, 48, of Slidell, La., was the last person who was seen with Adan Manzano, 27, before his body was discovered on Wednesday in his hotel room, Keith A. Conley, the police chief in Kenner, La., said on Friday during a news conference.

She also had stolen Mr. Manzano’s cellphone and one of his credit cards, using it at several stores in the New Orleans area, the chief said.

Investigators said that they were still waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine how Mr. Manzano, who lost his wife in a car accident last year and had a young daughter, had died.

The Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for information on Friday about the status of Mr. Manzano’s autopsy.

Still, Chief Conley said that the methods of Ms. Colbert, who so far is charged with fraud and theft-related offenses, fit a pattern of targeting men.

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